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Too bad the ppa doesn't seem to work on Debian proper. Yesterday I configured a new laptop with Debian Bookworm but I don't want Firefox ESR, I want the latest
by Sander_Marechal 3y ago
Too bad the ppa doesn't seem to work on Debian proper. Yesterday I configured a new laptop with Debian Bookworm but I don't want Firefox ESR, I want the latest stable. Snap sucks, the Flatpak version has some limitations that the real version doesn't, I don't want to run a mixed stable/sid distro and the only 3rd party repository I found was hosted on sourceforge, which I just plain don't trust. So it's 2023 and I'm still stuck manually downloading and unpacking .tar.bz2 files into /opt every other week.
- nicolaslem 3y ago> So it's 2023 and I'm still stuck manually downloading and unpacking .tar.bz2 files into /opt every other week. You should have to do that only once, then Firefox updates itself just like on Windows or MacOS. I ran this setup (Debian stable + Firefox installed by unpacking a tar) for years and never had an issue. Maybe you should unpack it in a directory where your normal user can write files to let Firefox handle the update.
- Sander_Marechal 3y agoI very much don't want that. My regular user not being able to modify the firefox files is a feature to me.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoMeanwhile on Arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-nightly-bin https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-nightly-bin So much easier than faffing about with six bazillion dh-whatever scripts.
- lproven 3y ago[Article author/submitter here] If you follow the link in the story to the older story about Firefox ESR on Debian, it describes 2 different ways to install natively-packaged .DEB versions of Firefox $CURRENT on Debian.